Article: BRAZIL: JOINT VENTURE CONSTRUCTION START-UP ON PLANNED $135,000,000 POLYPROPYLENE (PP) PLANT IN ASSOCIATION WITH $45,000,000 PROPYLENE UNIT IS TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO BEGIN SOME TIME DURING THE SECOND HALF OF 1999, PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A. (PETROBRAS), SUZANO [BRAZIL] & SHELL CHEMICALS [USA] - Order #: 070399.

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

A Brazilian joint venture was recently established in view of building a new propylene plant in Brazil. The partners in the planned undertaking include the local PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A. (PETROBRAS) and SUZANO. The new facility is intended to enable providing plant feedstock for a propylene complex that is expected to be built by POLIBRASIL of Brazil.

The later company is itself a joint venture consisting of SUZANO and SHELL CHEMICAL of the U.S. This manufacturing base, to be sited at Maua, in the state of Sao Paulo, will have an installed production capacity of 200,000 metric tons per year. The cost to build the new facility has ...

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